Substantial interference definition

Substantial interference means that the Project must cause unreasonable discomfort or unreasonable annoyance to a person of ordinary sensibilities attempting to use and enjoy the person’s land. It is more than a slight inconvenience or petty annoyance.
Substantial interference means that degree of interference with the court's business that is real, and not momentary or illusory. It also has been described as "wilful disobedience, resistance to, or interference with the court's lawful process, order, direction or instructions or its execution.” [State v. Key, 182 N.C.App. 624, 643 S.E.2d 444, review denied, 361 N.C. 433, 649 S.E.2d 398 (2007) (citation omitted) (rejecting argument that there was no interference because the court was able to transact other business).]
Substantial interference means, with respect to a person’s ability to perform their regular employment, that the person is unable to perform, after reasonable accommodation by the person or the person’s employer for the personal injury and reasonable efforts by the injured person to adjust to the accommodation, the essential elements of the activities required by the person’s pre-accident employment;

Examples of Substantial interference in a sentence

  • Bullying means an intentional electronic, written, verbal or physical act or series of acts directed at another student or students, which occurs in a school setting and /or outside a school setting that is severe, persistent of pervasive and has the effect of doing any of the following: Substantial interference with a student’s education Creation of a threatening environment Substantial disruption of the orderly operation of the school.

  • Substantial interference includes, but is not limited to, causing erosion on the Lot which threatens support pilings of structures or the base or surface of driveways or roads.


More Definitions of Substantial interference

Substantial interference means that the person is still, 12 months after the occurrence of the event giving rise to the cause of action,